{"title":"Home en vedette","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"pouchkine-alexandre-zworykine-alexandre-boris-godounov","title":"POUCHKINE Alexandre - ZWORYKINE Alexandre. Boris Godounov","description":"\u003cp\u003eParis, Édition d'Art H. Piazza, 1927\u003cbr\u003eSmall In-4 (235x175mm) of [2] ff. 1 watercolor, 138 pp. and 15 illustrations with black and color suite, [3] ff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJansenist binding in full dark green Moroccan. Spine with five ribs with title piece in gilded characters. Gilded edges. Cap notch decorated with gilded lines. Cut, edges of the outer covers accompanied by a gilded fillet in their center.\u003cbr\u003eEnd covers made of a mosaic floral decoration. This decoration, identical on the 2 end covers is on dark brown Moroccan leather. It is framed with gilded fillets and dots. The 19th century style ornamental compositions are in 3 shades, red, green and beige and structured by gilded fillets. Endpapers laminated with marbled paper. Covers and spine preserved. Shirt and slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCopy No. 4 on Japanese Imperial paper with a suite in black and a suite in color of illustrations and an original watercolor by Boris Zworykine.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/04_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_GodounovCasaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1731170690\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/04_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_GodounovCasaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1731170690\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThe binding is signed LANOÉ Charles Louis Lucien. Bookplate of the French deputy Albert Dubosc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/09_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_GodounovCasaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1731170691\" alt=\"\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/09_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_GodounovCasaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1731170691\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eBoris Godunov is a tragic play written by Alexander Pushkin in 1825 and published in 1831. This drama, which is part of Russian history, is magnificently illustrated and decorated by Boris Zworykine whose style reinforces the power of the text.\u003cbr\u003eThe artist, born in Moscow, created murals in the churches of the imperial village of Tsarskoe Zelo (today Pushkin City) near Saint Petersburg, before immigrating to Paris in 1921. He then decorated the Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior in Asnières-sur-Seine.\u003cbr\u003eHis style, close to Russian Orthodox icons, is built with strong and precise lines with bright colors. It is a wonder for the eyes.\u003cbr\u003eHe also created with H. Piazza the magnificent book of the Golden Cockerel, entirely illustrated with lithographs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/06_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_GodounovCasaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1731170690\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/06_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_GodounovCasaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1731170690\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/03_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_GodounovCasaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1731248782\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/03_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_GodounovCasaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1731248782\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe spine of the case is sunned. The book is in perfect condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/05_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_GodounovCasaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1731170690\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/05_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_GodounovCasaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1731170690\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo learn more about the illustrator:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boris_Zvorykine\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boris_Zvorykine\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boris_Zvorykine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou can see all the scanned book on the BNF website :\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k1522739t.r=boris%20zworykine?rk=21459;2\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k1522739t.r=boris%20zworykine?rk=21459;2\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k1522739t.r=boris%20zworykine?rk=21459;2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Casaubon Livre Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49846214852948,"sku":null,"price":3600.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/00_Zvorykine_Pouchkine_Boris_Godounov.jpg?v=1731170650"},{"product_id":"lunois-courboin-schwabe-seon-rudnicki-uzanne-haraucourt-edmond-l-effort-la-madone-l-antechrist-l-immortalite-la-fin-du-monde","title":"Haraucourt Edmond - RUDNICKI Léon - LUNOIS Alexandre - COURBOIN Eugène - SCHWABE Carloz - SÉON Alexandre. L’Effort, La Madone, L’Antéchrist, L’Immortalité, La Fin du monde","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParis, société de l’académie des Beaux Livres Bibliophiles Contemporains, 1894.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn-4 of 215x282mm (cover 215x275) composed of 4ff. - 10ff. (La Madonne) - 20ff. (L'AnteChrist) - 18ff. (L'Immortalité) - 24ff. (La Fin du Monde) - 2ff.\u003cbr\u003eIn unbound sheets and gathered in a notebook by colored cords. Illustrated folded cover, pocket case covered with marbled paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover, half-title, introductory leaf, title frontispiece, illustrated by Léon Rudnicki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Madone\u003c\/em\u003e - Alexandre Lunois - 18 Original lithographs by the artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eL’AnteChrist\u003c\/em\u003e - Eugène Courboin - 38 illustrations engraved by Maison Quantin and stencilled in watercolor by A. Charpentier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eL’Immortalité\u003c\/em\u003e - Carloz Schwabe - 33 figures, including 10 etched plates engraved in intaglio by Auguste Macé and 23 stencilled in watercolor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Fin du Monde\u003c\/em\u003e - Alexandre Séon - 47 grayscale drawings engraved by Michelet and Bordier, title frontispiece in gold printing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/02_Schwabe_Lunois_Courboin_Seon_Rudnicki_Uzanne_Haraucourt_Casaubon-livre-rare_effort_madone_casaubon_livre-rare.jpg?v=1731450749\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial watermarked paper designed by Octave Uzanne, president of the societies of the Académie des Beaux Livres Bibliophiles Contemporains, who also directed this edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/04_Schwabe_Lunois_Courboin_Seon_Rudnicki_Uzanne_Haraucourt_Casaubon-livre-rare_effort_madone_casaubon_livre-rare.jpg?v=1731450748\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition of 180 copies. Here N°93 printed for Luis Manero\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most impressive and beautiful symbolist books.\u003cbr\u003eThis tale in four parts written by Edmond Haraucourt has a high-flying artistic direction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/06_Schwabe_Lunois_Courboin_Seon_Rudnicki_Uzanne_Haraucourt_Casaubon-livre-rare_effort_madone_casaubon_livre-rare.jpg?v=1731450749\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 renowned artists with very different styles, several engraving and coloring techniques, a specially designed paper. This book is apart in the history of bibliophily, so much effort and artistic diversity to illustrate a single story, certainly segmented into four parts, this is almost unheard of.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/07_Schwabe_Lunois_Courboin_Seon_Rudnicki_Uzanne_Haraucourt_Casaubon-livre-rare_effort_madone_casaubon_livre-rare.jpg?v=1731450748\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/14_Schwabe_Lunois_Courboin_Seon_Rudnicki_Uzanne_Haraucourt_Casaubon-livre-rare_effort_madone_casaubon_livre-rare.jpg?v=1731450748\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the pastel poetry of Alexandre Lunois' lithographs, we move on to the very contemporary style of Eugène Courboin, almost similar to a comic strip of today and which perfectly supports the malaise of the Antichrist. Then comes Carloz Schwabe who plunges us into the antechamber of death with almost morbid symbolist atmospheres, all ending with the very personal drawings of Alexandre Séon, whose style, after 130 years, remains as modern as ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/16_Schwabe_Lunois_Courboin_Seon_Rudnicki_Uzanne_Haraucourt_Casaubon-livre-rare_effort_madone_casaubon_livre-rare.jpg?v=1731450748\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/19_Schwabe_Lunois_Courboin_Seon_Rudnicki_Uzanne_Haraucourt_Casaubon-livre-rare_effort_madone_casaubon_livre-rare.jpg?v=1731450749\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscover the author Edmond Haraucourt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmond_Haraucourt\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edmond_Haraucourt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiscover the artists:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLéon Rudnicki: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%C3%A9on_Rudnicki\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%C3%A9on_Rudnicki\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexandre Lunois: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandre_Lunois\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandre_Lunois\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEugène Courboin: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eug%C3%A8ne_Courboin\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eug%C3%A8ne_Courboin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarloz Schwabe: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlos_Schwabe\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlos_Schwabe\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexandre Séon: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandre_S%C3%A9on\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandre_S%C3%A9on\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo be consulted in full on the BNF website:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b8600231s\/f1.planchecontact\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b8600231s\/f1.planchecontact\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e stains on the half-title and the introductory leaf. Some of the cords that attach the leaves are undone. Everything else is in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casaubon Livre Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50569419030868,"sku":null,"price":2400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/00_Schwabe_Lunois_Courboin_Seon_Rudnicki_Uzanne_Haraucourt.jpg?v=1731449580"},{"product_id":"rochegrosse-homere-lodyssee","title":"HOMÈRE - ROCHEGROSSE Georges-Antoine. L'Odyssée","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParis, Éditions d’Art F. Ferroud, 1930.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn-4 (310x230mm), paperback, illustrated cover.\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated edition of compositions by Rochegrosse: 25 etched plates in 3 states, 24 headbands, 24 decorated letters, 24 colored woodcuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXCEPTIONAL COPY. Special edition reimposed on Grand Papier de Hollande Van Gelder numbered in Roman numerals containing 3 states of the etchings including pure aqua frort. Accompanied by 8 plates in the text enhanced with color on Japanese paper giving the illusion of original watercolors.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are the 8 plates enhanced with watercolor on Japanese paper:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/10_Rochegrosse_Homere_Odyssee_Casaubon-livre-rare_3afe468a-43ae-4fb1-8ab3-7a9c1834c536.jpg?v=1734968933\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf Georges Rochegrosse had not decided to retire, to illustrate only one more work, we would most likely have entrusted him with the Iliad and the Odyssey. But this great artist did not want to give up and having chosen the Odyssey, we accepted his way of seeing, and the development of Homer's second masterpiece is finished. Four years were necessary to complete such a work and its very important documentation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eF. Ferroud, Paris 1930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/07_Rochegrosse_Homere_Odyssee_Casaubon-livre-rare_ffa4e60e-b88b-4333-9be2-538d6a3501df.jpg?v=1734968933\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt will be difficult to detail the life and work of Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (married to Marie Rochegrosse \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marie_Rochegrosse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marie_Rochegrosse\u003c\/a\u003e), so vast is it. Symbolist and orientalist painter, lover of Algeria and member of the society of French orientalist painters and professor at the Académie Druet. He was successful during his lifetime and his work as an illustrator and painter is immense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/16_Rochegrosse_Homere_Odyssee_Casaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1734968885\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe will note as other books illustrated by the artist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Chaîne d’Or\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/casaubon.fr\/products\/rochegrosse-gautier-theophile-la-chaine-dor\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/casaubon.fr\/products\/rochegrosse-gautier-theophile-la-chaine-dor\u003c\/a\u003e) or \u003cem\u003eLe Roman de la Momie\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k19101518.r=rochegrosse%20momie?rk=21459;2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k19101518.r=rochegrosse%20momie?rk=21459;2\u003c\/a\u003e) by Théophile Gaultier or \u003cem\u003eLe Scarabée d’Or\u003c\/em\u003e by Edgar Poe (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k1526005v\/f20.planchecontact.r=rochegrosse%20scarabee\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k1526005v\/f20.planchecontact.r=rochegrosse%20scarabee\u003c\/a\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artist's Wikipedia: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Antoine_Rochegrosse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges-Antoine_Rochegrosse\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis page on the Musée d'Orsay website: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-orsay.fr\/fr\/ressources\/repertoire-artistes-personnalites\/georges-rochegrosse-21006\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.musee-orsay.fr\/fr\/ressources\/repertoire-artistes-personnalites\/georges-rochegrosse-21006\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003every good condition, see photos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/02_Rochegrosse_Homere_Odyssee_Casaubon-livre-rare_04e35952-5cd1-4565-a202-1bdb13b5dc10.jpg?v=1734968933\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/17_Rochegrosse_Homere_Odyssee_Casaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1734968885\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casaubon Livre Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578812272980,"sku":null,"price":990.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/00_Rochegrosse_Homere_Odyssee_Casaubon-livre-rare_6e6f009c-9b58-4183-9bb2-15eaaac433c1.jpg?v=1734968933"},{"product_id":"valentin-basile-azoth-ou-le-moyen-de-faire-l-or-cache-des-philosophes","title":"VALENTIN Basile. Azoth ou le moyen de faire l’or caché des philosophes","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eAzoth ou le moyen de faire l’or caché des philosophes\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDe Frère Basile Valentin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eÀ  Paris, chez Pierre Moet. 1659\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall octavo, 172x112mm, 196pp. Frontispiece, numerous headbands and initials, 14 woodcuts. 17th-century full red calf binding with five raised bands. Gilt title label and compartments, gilt border on the raised bands. Covers decorated with gilt frames and gilt fleurons. Gilt border on the edges of the covers. Blank endpapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Happy three or even four times, happy is he who has acquired the complete knowledge of this art.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e Basile Valentin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/12_Basile-Valentin_Azoth-or-cache-philosophes.jpg?v=1759076721\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by Basile Valentin, a famous 16th-century alchemist canon, this book is a reference in philosophical alchemy. Far from folkloric esoteric books, it opens the paths to the wisdom of life. The first part consists of a dialogue between Adolphe, representing the one who believes he knows, a materialist attracted by wealth but thirsty for knowledge, and the Old Man, the philosopher, simple in appearance, whose speeches seem naive if one cannot decipher their metaphors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“You will repel darkness, all gloom, and blindness, for it is the force of forces that overcomes all force and subtle things and penetrates hard and solid things.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e B.V.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part reveals the secrets of mysterious alchemical concepts through the Philosopher's Stone, Azoth, Mercury, VITRIOL, or the Dragon, a set of metaphorical keys that unlock the secrets of life through the principle of transmutation (sometimes called the Universal Remedy or Panacea).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“I am a poisonous Dragon, being everywhere present and at a low price, the thing on which I rest and which rests on me, will be found in me, which will seek well and diligently my water \u0026amp; my destructive and composing fire [...] the philosophers call me Mercury, my husband is the philosophical gold, I am the old Dragon present throughout the earth, I am father and mother, young and old, strong \u0026amp; weak, hard and soft, descending to earth and ascending to heaven, very large and very small, very light and very heavy.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e B.V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/05_Basile-Valentin_Azoth-or-cache-philosophes.jpg?v=1759076719\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part is structured as follows:\u003cbr\u003e1 Atlas\u003cbr\u003e2 The Words of Hermes to the Pimander\u003cbr\u003e3 The Smaragdine Table of Hermes or the Words of the Secrets of Hermes\u003cbr\u003e4 The Symbol of Brother Basil Valentine\u003cbr\u003e5 The New Symbol\u003cbr\u003e6 Raw Material\u003cbr\u003e7 Operation of the Philosophical Mystery\u003cbr\u003e8 Second Figure\u003cbr\u003e9 Third Figure\u003cbr\u003e10 Fourth Figure\u003cbr\u003e11 Fifth Figure\u003cbr\u003e12 Sixth Figure\u003cbr\u003e13 The Universal Work of the Philosophers\u003cbr\u003e14 Declaration and Explanation of Adolphe\u003cbr\u003e15 The Symbol of Saturn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/08_Basile-Valentin_Azoth-or-cache-philosophes.jpg?v=1759076720\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe third part is a philosophical poem on the Azoth of the philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the text appears to have several levels of interpretation, it is, more prosaically, and despite the typos, very well written and highly poetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“This is true and far from any lie, that what is below is similar to what is above [...] the Sun is the Father and the Moon is the Mother, the wind carries it in its womb, the earth is its nurse, the mother of all perfection, its power is perfect if it is changed into Earth, separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the hope and gross, and prudently, with modesty and wisdom, it rises from the earth to the sky [...] by this means you will have the glory of all.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e B.V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/06_Basile-Valentin_Azoth-or-cache-philosophes.jpg?v=1759076719\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBasil Valentinus (Basilius Valentinus) is one of the great names in alchemy, presented as a Benedictine monk who lived at the Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt. While his existence remains enigmatic, the majority of the works attributed to him were published in the early 17th century. His works presented for the first time the major principles of alchemy or protochemistry, such as the production of ammonia, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid, and contributed to the fame of Azoth and Vitriol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBassie Valentin appears to be a pseudonym for Johann Thölde.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaillet 797;\u003cbr\u003eBrunet V, 1035\u003cbr\u003ePernety 52\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Binding in good condition, patinated with age. The gilt decorations are very well preserved. annotations and pencil marks are present. There is a small stain between pages 15 and 41 at the bottom of the page. There are stains on page 81. There are numerous printing errors. The book is complete. Overall, very good condition (see photos).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“So be it to Mercury, which, although it is footless, runs like water, not wetting the hands and operates entirely metallically.”\u003c\/strong\u003e B.V.\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casaubon livre rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52679406092628,"sku":null,"price":3100.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/00_Basile-Valentin_Azoth-or-cache-philosophes.jpg?v=1759253380"},{"product_id":"durer-albrecht-les-quatres-livres-dalbert-durer-1557","title":"DÜRER Albrecht. 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White endpapers, title page and epistle 2ff., then 124ff. comprising 145 woodcuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplete copy, collation similar to the copies held by the INHA and the BNF, with the same pagination errors except for the first fold-out, which presents the engraving as a double-page spread on the verso of page 3, not on a folded sheet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/09_quatre_livres_albrecht_durer_casaubon-livres-rare-books.jpg?v=1764524348\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Les quatre livres d'Albert Durer Casaubon livre rare book\" href=\"https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k1510801t\/f3.planchecontact\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k1510801t\/f3.planchecontact\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Les quatre livres d'albert durer casaubon livre rare book\" href=\"https:\/\/bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr\/viewer\/7281\/?offset=#page=5\u0026amp;amp;viewer=thumb\u0026amp;amp;o=bookmark\u0026amp;amp;n=0\u0026amp;amp;q=\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr\/viewer\/7281\/?offset=#page=5\u0026amp;viewer=thumb\u0026amp;o=bookmark\u0026amp;n=0\u0026amp;q=\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published by his wife Agnes six months after his death in 1528, this book was the culmination of a long preparatory work for Dürer. To create it, the artist left behind nearly 1,500 pages of reflection, experimentation, and artistic formulas. He accompanied his writings with woodcuts intended to make his theories more accessible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book was quickly published in its Latin version by Joachim Camerarius, which allowed for its wide dissemination and brought the Four Books widespread success in Europe among artists and scholars. It went on to be reprinted and translated several times. (1)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf all these reprints and translations, Brunet considers only three original editions: the Latin edition of 1532-34, the French edition of 1557, and the Italian edition of 1591. (2)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original French edition of 1557 is distinguished by the quality of its woodcuts, executed with exceptional precision and virtuosity (4), and also by its translation by the Lyon-born humanist and linguist Louis Meigret (Loys Megret Lionnois).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis linguist advocated for a phonographic reform of French spelling, which he was unable to implement. He did, however, achieve a certain degree of fame thanks to the reputation of his grammar, known for being unreadable, but, on another subject, for the quality of his translations. The humanist Muret praised his \"sweet language,\" emphasizing the elegance and fluidity of his style. His first translation of Dürer's work was quite successful and was republished in 1613. (3)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/02_quatre_livres_albrecht_durer_casaubon-livres-rare-books.jpg?v=1764524348\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe intellectual contribution of the 1557 edition lies in Loys Meigret's precise translation of these complex concepts. The book, divided into four parts, unfolds as follows:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1- The First Book: Fractional Measurement. Dürer presents a method for dividing the human body using fractions of its total height.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2- The Second Book: Alberti's System and the Exempeda. Dürer elaborates on his approach. He introduced a measurement method inspired by the Italian theorist Leon Battista Alberti, using a graduated ruler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3- The Third Book: The Geometry of Variations. In this book, Dürer teaches how to modify the proportions of a standard figure to create variations: fat, thin, tall, short.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4- The Fourth Book: The Theory of Motion. This final book analyzes the behavior of proportions when the body is in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePanotsky describes the First Book as follows: “\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis First Book contains five different types of male and female figures measuring seven, eight, nine, and ten ‘heads’ respectively; in addition to a description of certain technical procedures such as parallel projection (1647–1649), it provides detailed measurements of the head—male and female—the hand, the foot, and the baby. All proportions are given in three dimensions and expressed as aliquots of the total length.” According to Dürer, none of these five types deserved to be called deformed, or even ugly, although he would certainly have considered types B and C, \"mittelmassige\" (\"medium\" or rather \"moderate\"), descendants of the early Apollos, as closer approximations of \"techte Hiibsche\" (\"true beauty\") than type A, \"grobe baurische\" (\"crude and rustic\")\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. Panotsky - \u003cem\u003eAlbercht Dürer\u003c\/em\u003e. 1945, p. 266\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe visual result of the engravings and their composition with typography impresses with their aesthetic rendering. This work, with its refined lines and scientific precision, remains as modern as ever and evokes images belonging to the unconscious of our civilization, much like Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to a Sotheby's listing quoting Panotsky, this book was widely used by painters in the 16th and 17th centuries, and it laid the foundations of scientific anthropometry. Panotsky compares its importance to that of Luther's translation of the Bible, Dürer had managed to assimilate the theoretical problems of the Renaissance without betraying his nature as a Northern artist. (5)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA magnificent and complete copy, a testament to the technical innovations of the Renaissance, this book is a lesson in humility for our generation. It bears witness to what this era brought to humanity and continues to bring us. 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Collation: [12 pp], title page, 6 pp., [1] leaf Half-title, [1] leaf Frontispiece Title, 256 pp., [4].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree years were required for the engraver Jacques Beltrand, assisted by his brothers, to execute all the woodcuts and successfully reproduce the full aesthetic quality of Maurice Denis's gouaches and watercolors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe engraving work makes this book a masterpiece in its own right within the history of modern bibliophilia. Breaking away from the hyper-realistic iconography of the era (Mucha, Schwabe, Bouguereau, Doré…), it positions itself as an heir to the Italian Primitives (Fra Angelico, Giotto… see the preface by André Pératé) while remaining steeped in new Symbolist themes, Art Nouveau curves, and Japonisme-inspired woodsurfing. One will also recognize the pastel color palette characteristic of the Nabis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book’s apocryphal themes suit Maurice Denis perfectly, offering him the ideal medium for his spiritual quest and the aesthetic renewal sought by the Nabis—those young Symbolist painters passionate about esotericism and spirituality, disciples of Gauguin, among whom Maurice Denis was a key figure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe gospels of Saint Francis, while possessing their own canonical text, also have their apocrypha. Here recomposed and translated by André Pératé based on the 1822 and 1900 editions, they escape the rigid stature of the canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Little Flowers (Fioretti in Italian) serve as the surroundings to the Great Text—those small, cast-aside writings that live in the shadow of major narratives, sharing the Saint's life more simply, with less conformism and solemnity. 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A novice dismissed from the Society of Jesus, he translated the Zohar and became the spiritual director of a Venetian visionary in whom he saw the \"new Eve\". The Venetian Inquisition judged him mad rather than heretical; he spent four years in prison in Rome and ended his life confined in the priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs (2).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first book opens with an epistle to the Dauphin that makes no secret of its purpose: to know the Ottoman Empire in detail is to acquire the means of confronting it one day. Yet Postel does not write as a compiler. He had seen Constantinople and come close to the court of Suleiman, and it is this first-hand view that gives the book its value. 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Restoration of the headdress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(1) Claude Postel, « Les écrits de Guillaume Postel publiés en France et leurs éditeurs (1538-1579) », résumé du diplôme de l'EPHE soutenu le 18 avril 1991, Annuaire de l'EPHE, section des sciences religieuses, t. 99, 1990-1991, p. 483-484. https:\/\/www.persee.fr\/doc\/ephe_0000-0002_1990_num_103_99_14524\u003cbr\u003e(2) François Secret, « Postel Guillaume (1510-1581) », Encyclopædia Universalis\u003cbr\u003e(3) Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing. 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Les voyages de Jean Struys en Moscovie, en Tartarie, en Perse","description":"\u003cp\u003eSTRUYS Jean.\u003cbr\u003eLes Voyages de Jean Struys, en Moscovie, en Tartarie, en Perse, aux Indes, \u0026amp; en plusieurs autres païs étrangers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccompagnés de remarques particuliéres sur la qualité, la Religion, le gouvernement, les coutumes \u0026amp; le négoce des lieux qu'il a vus ; avec quantité de figures en taille douce dessinées par lui-même ; \u0026amp; deux lettres qui traitent à fond des malheurs d'Astracan.\u003cbr\u003eA quoi l'on a ajouté comme une chose digne d'être suë, la Rélation d'un Naufrage; dont les suites ont produit des effets extraordinaires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA AMSTREDAM, Chés la Veuve de JACOB van MEURS.\u003cbr\u003eM. DC. LXXXI. [1681]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4to, 250 x 194 mm. [4] ff. (frontispiece, title, preface), 1 folding map, [4] ff. (table of chapters), 360 pp., 19 folding plates, 8 ff. (zz4–aa4), [1] blank f., 80 pp. with 9 engravings (in and out of text). Complete. Contemporary speckled brown calf, spine with four raised bands, compartments decorated with floral tooling, red morocco title label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis French edition of 1681 is Glanius's translation of the original Dutch text, printed in Amsterdam in 1676. It recounts the wanderings of Jean Struys (Jan Janszoon Struys, 1629–1694), a Dutch sailor and adventurer, through Muscovy, Tartary, Persia and the Indies.\u003cbr\u003eIn these adventures you will travel, among other places, to Venice, Madagascar, Siam, Formosa, Japan, Florence, Bologna, Troy, Turkey, Greece, Muscovy, Moscow, Armenia…\u003cbr\u003eAfter this, Glanius adds a second book, the \u003cem\u003eRelation d'un Naufrage, dont les suites ont produit des effets extraordinaires\u003c\/em\u003e (Account of a Shipwreck, the consequences of which produced extraordinary effects).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrative, enriched with vocabularies of the Yukaghir, Yakut and Tungus languages, combines ethnographic observations, geographical descriptions and personal anecdotes. It is thus of historical interest both for the places and cultures encountered and for the life of an \"ordinary\" 17th-century European who wished to travel and discover the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurders, wars, rapes, disease, slavery: all the harshness of the age is set down without superlatives, in a plain and at times disconcerting style, which in turn gives great force to the moments in the lives of the protagonists. Struys was a direct eyewitness of the bloody Cossack revolt led by Stenka Razin in Russia, which he describes in Les malheurs d'Astracan in chapter XV. His account depicts societies in the midst of upheaval (the fall of the khanates, the rise of tsarist Russia), as well as local customs (marriages, funerals, trade) that would disappear with modernisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe format of the book, its typography, its layout and its engravings (said to be by Struys's own hand) make it a particularly readable travel narrative, one that allows us to immerse ourselves easily in the world of the 17th century. This is a book with a dual purpose, which explains its long publishing life: it is at once an adventure story and a valuable ethnographic source.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(Source: \"The Image of Armenia in European Travel Accounts\", Internet Archive).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrunet V, col. 569.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Covers restored and reinforced; rust spot on p. 89; pages 345–346–347 are misnumbered 245–246–247. Last three leaves and endpapers browned.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casaubon Livre Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57120008798548,"sku":null,"price":2650.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/00_Voyages_Jean_Struys_Casaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1789230492"},{"product_id":"coronelli-memoires-historiques-geographies-du-royaume-de-la-moree","title":"CORONELLI. Memoires Historiques \u0026 Geographies du royaume de la Morée","description":"\u003cp\u003eMémoires Historiques \u0026amp; Géographiques du royaume de la Morée, Negrepont, \u0026amp; des place Maritimes, jusqu'à Théssalonique.\u003cbr\u003eRecueillis \u0026amp; enrichis des Cartes des Païs, \u0026amp; des Plans des Places, Par P.M. Coronelli, Geographe de la Republique de Venise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eÀ Amsterdam, Chez Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, \u0026amp; van Someren. 1686\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12mo, 157 x 107 mm, contemporary vellum with gilt ornament on the spine and a small gilt band at the head of the spine.\u003cbr\u003e[1] blank f., [1] f. title page, [1] f. notice to the reader. 232 pp. + 42 plates, [1] f. list of plates. Complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA work of travel, geography and geopolitics, and a historical record not only of Greek towns and landscapes but above all of the conquest of the Ottoman Morea by the Republic of Venice between 1684 and 1686, the \u003cem\u003eMémoires Historiques \u0026amp; Géographiques du royaume de la Morée \u003c\/em\u003ewas written and published under the direction of the Franciscan friar Vincenzo Coronelli (a Venetian, born in 1650).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA celebrated scholar, Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice and founder in 1680 of \u003cem\u003ethe Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, the first geographical society in the world\u003c\/em\u003e, Coronelli was a shrewd businessman who knew how to exploit his talents as a globe maker and engraver. He thus became one of the most famous globe makers of all time: he created the \"Marly globes\", made in honour of Louis XIV during his stay in Paris between 1681 and 1683 and now preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris. (1)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Coronelli is also famous today for his publishing work in the service of the Republic of Venice, above all on the subject of the \"Regno della Morea\". [...] \u003cem\u003ethis expression referring not only to the Venetian conquest of the Morea, but also to the publication that transformed Coronelli, the esoteric maker of globes for kings, emperors and popes, into an internationally renowned engraver, publisher and author.\u003c\/em\u003e (2)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe historical context of this edition tells us a great deal about Coronelli's interest in the Morea. In 1684 Venice declared war on the Ottoman Empire and set out to conquer the Morea; the appearance of his edition in 1686 was therefore no coincidence. It served geographical ends, but also geostrategic ones, and acted as propaganda for the city of Venice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoronelli's engravings illustrating the course of the Venetian campaigns were first published in Venice in 1686, in two books: \u003cem\u003eLe Conquiste della serenissima republica di Venetia and the Memorie istoriografiche della Morea\u003c\/em\u003e. In their wake he published numerous editions and translations of the Morea illustrating the Venetian campaigns, and constantly reworked his engravings to suit new formats and the corrections required by propaganda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eMemorie istoriografiche della Morea\u003c\/em\u003e draws on the contents of the book of conquests but becomes more a geographical description than a military account; it is accompanied by topographical views of towns, in addition to the texts and engravings originally produced. (2)\u003cbr\u003eThis book, first printed in folio, was quickly adapted to octavo format with new engravings suited to the smaller size, and was printed throughout Europe (notably in Paris under Coronelli's direction).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was in this format that the Amsterdam edition was produced. This edition has a new French translation (different from the Paris edition), and its plates are newly engraved by the workshops of Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom \u0026amp; Van Someren (a consortium of prestigious Amsterdam booksellers). Almost certainly without Coronelli's permission, the Dutch publishers, seeing the book's success, were astonishingly quick to copy the text, engrave the plates and bring out a version of equally high quality almost simultaneously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoronelli never travelled to the Morea. However, according to Navari [...] \u003cem\u003ethe immense amount of work and the speed with which it was accomplished imply that Coronelli must have had access to official sources of information, military intelligence including drawings of fortifications and terrain made by army engineers. This was a natural conclusion to draw, given that Coronelli worked on the orders of the Venetian Senate and that his publications were an instrument of propaganda intended to celebrate Venetian victories. \u003c\/em\u003e(2)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis most ambitious work is the Atlante Veneto: Isolario descrittione geografico-historica. Venice: 1696–97, a monumental atlas in two volumes, the first covering the Mediterranean, Italy and the Adriatic, and the second Great Britain, Europe, Africa, Japan, Asia and the West Indies. (3)\u003cbr\u003eOur Mémoires historiques et géographiques du royaume de la Morée served him for certain descriptions of Greece, the Morea and Negroponte: the plans and views that appear as double-page plates in our 12mo are found there, beautifully set into the text of the folio Atlas.\u003cbr\u003e(e.g. p. 190 https:\/\/phaidra.unipd.it\/api\/object\/o:352212\/preview).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA very good copy. The engravings are numerous and superb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Usual soiling to the vellum. Light dampstain visible at the top right corner of the first 10 leaves. Various minor traces of soiling and dampstaining throughout, as usual for this type of work; see photos and videos. Very good condition overall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReferences:\u003cbr\u003e- 1600.venezia.it - Città di Venezia\u003cbr\u003e- Leonora Navari. \u003cem\u003eVincenzo Coronelli and the iconography of the Venetian conquest of the Morea: a study in illustrative methods\u003c\/em\u003e. Cambridge University Press. 2013.\u003cbr\u003e- Christie's. 2016. \u003cem\u003eAtlante Veneto: Isolario descrittione geografico-historica\u003c\/em\u003e. Venice: 1696–97.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casaubon Livre Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57121801830740,"sku":null,"price":2600.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/00_Memoires_Royaume_Moree_Negrepont_Coronelli_Casaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1789233403"},{"product_id":"crescientio-piero-de-agricultura-vulgare","title":"CRESCIENTIO Piero. 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A wine merchant and gastronome, André Louis Simon wrote numerous books on gastronomy and founded the International Wine and Food Society. He assembled one of the most prestigious private libraries devoted to the history of gastronomy, viticulture and agriculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePietro de' Crescenzi (c. 1230 – c. 1320) was an Italian magistrate, lawyer and agronomist born in Bologna. After a legal career that took him across northern Italy, he retired to his country estate. It was there that he wrote his major work, the Ruralia commoda (or Ruralium commodorum opus).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis treatise had a major impact in the Middle Ages and well into the Renaissance. It sheds light on medieval agriculture and fills the silence of notarial deeds and account books, which are often far too vague about the daily work of the land. Written in the early 14th century, the text owes its richness to the diversity of its sources. It brings together the ancient teachings of classical authors, direct observation of the farming practices of northern Italy, and the distant Eastern knowledge of the Byzantine Geoponika.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur book, Piero Crescientio de agricultura vulgare, is the Italian translation of the Ruralium commodorum opus into the \"vulgare\" (the vernacular, Italian, intended for Venetian readers). A magnificent copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGraesse II, p. 299; MS Lat 243 (Harvard); EDIT16 CNCE 13735\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGAULIN Jean-Louis. \u003cem style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eSur le vin au Moyen Âge. 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(Followed by) Geheimniß aller Geheimnisse oder Clavis Sapientiae omnium philosophorum et adeptorum, in einem guldenen Kleinod und Compendio veritatis philosophico, aus einem uralten Manuscript von Anno 1300 mitgetheilet und ans Licht gestellet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedical, Chemical and Alchemical Oracle, in which are found all the signs and abbreviations used in the recipes and books of physicians and apothecaries as well as in the writings of chemists and alchemists, to which is added a very rare chemical manuscript of a certain Reichs \u003cem\u003eThe Secret of All Secrets, or Key to the Wisdom of All Philosophers and Adepts\u003c\/em\u003e, taken from a very ancient manuscript of the year 1300.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUlm and Memmingen, Gaumische Handlung, 1755. Colophon: Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, printer to the chancery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo, 205 x 130 mm. (3) ff., 72 pp. Contemporary plain temporary boards. 2 full-page woodcuts, headpieces, initials, tailpieces and printer's device (printing press, motto Cum ubertate vigo). Early manuscript ownership inscription on the title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION of this little book with a false bottom, which is at once the most complete dictionary of symbols ever printed in late alchemy and a fully fledged hermetic treatise\u003c\/strong\u003e, addressed \"to the Sons of natural hermetic Wisdom\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first part (pp. 1-34) is a pure typographical curiosity: 1,829 signs, cut in wood or specially cast, arranged in two-column tables, Latin and German, under 359 entries, from Abstrahere to Zincum. There are as many as thirty graphic variants for alum alone, some thirty for distilled vinegar, the seven metals under their planets, the operations of the Great Work, the vessels, the times and the weights. The preface, dated 16 January 1755, explains that its author sought to gather together what lay \"scattered and dispersed\" in the books of the alchemists so that everyone might at last be able to read them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part changes register. \u003cem\u003eThe Clavis Sapientiae\u003c\/em\u003e, presented as taken from a manuscript of 1300, opens with a title on whose verso a double-headed eagle entwined with a caduceus, set within a lozenge, warns the reader: \"\u003cem\u003eWer mich liest, der mercke drauf\u003c\/em\u003e\" - let whoever reads me take heed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second woodcut, beneath the motto \u003cem\u003eOra et labora\u003c\/em\u003e, shows an old alchemist kneeling before his athanor, holding the philosophers' stone in one hand and a lamp in the other, while a hand emerging from the clouds holds out a banderole to him: \u003cem\u003eInitium sapientiae timor Dei.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe iconography derives directly from Khunrath's Amphitheatrum, and the text openly refers to it, mentioning \"\u003cem\u003eour secret Oratory and Laboratory\u003c\/em\u003e\". There follow the epistle to the hermetic brothers and friends, a preface reproducing that of Salomon Trismosin's Aureum Vellus (with the catalogue of his treatises), and then the treatise itself, in which the recipes for the quintessence, the salt of metals and the red tincture are written in the very symbols that the first part has just taught.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe book thus reads like a course: first the alphabet, then the text.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA work of reference for two and a half centuries. Wolfgang Schneider, holder of the chair of the history of pharmacy at the Technical University of Braunschweig, made it the basis of his Lexikon alchemistisch-pharmazeutischer Symbole in 1962, and Adam McLean reproduced it in full in his Hermetic Studies. A second edition appeared in Ulm in 1772; the first, in its original boards is rare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFerguson II, 84. Duveen 440. Neu 2733. 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XX, although it is misnumbered XVI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA treatise on natural philosophy\u003c\/strong\u003e (what we now call the natural sciences, and more particularly physics) \u003cstrong\u003ewritten by Master Claude Péronne.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn interesting and scholarly compendium of early 16th-century knowledge\u003c\/strong\u003e, this text—contemporary with Luther and Copernicus—offers a true snapshot of the end of an era, just before the world was transformed by the other great minds of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author describes his era as an \"iron age\" marked by incessant wars, moral corruption and the greed of the powerful. He particularly attacks the Catholic hierarchy (\"the princes of the Church militant\"), who despoil the faithful in order to wage internecine wars instead of preaching peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese denunciations of the abuses of the Church were very much in the spirit of the age: they were voiced by the greatest preachers of the late Middle Ages, such as Geiler von Kaysersberg, at a time when the word \"Reform\" echoed everywhere. (\u003cem\u003eL'art oratoire de Geiler de Kaysersberg : passion et savoir-faire\u003c\/em\u003e. Francis Rapp. Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie religieuses. 2016.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this context of denunciation of the abuses of the clergy and the powerful, the passage on Luther (folio 13) is historically remarkable: (machine translation)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo one, truth be told, dares today to blame the powerful; all keep silent, laying a finger on their lips.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho today, unless lacking in reason, would dare, like Hercules, to fight the lion?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoes not Luther succumb to it?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurely, had John the Baptist not rebuked Herod, he would not have been beheaded: for many indeed have perished because of their duty to the truth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuther published his manifesto for reform in 1520, the same year as the publication of our book. \u003cstrong\u003eWe are thus at a moment in history when the great ideas of the Reformation were still supported by the intellectuals of the day\u003c\/strong\u003e: Claude Péronne admires Luther's boldness against the corruption of the Church, just before Luther's excommunication and before religious conflict began to break out across Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe folding chart (f. 8) visually summarises all the natural philosophy expounded in the text, illustrating the geocentric model inherited from Aristotle and Ptolemy.\u003cbr\u003eThis fascinating chart is a representation of the established knowledge of the world.\u003cbr\u003eIt follows the geocentric model inherited from Aristotle and Ptolemy, with the Earth at the centre of the universe. Born of chaos, it is made up of the four elements, and around it are the known planets (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) with their astrological and medical properties, then the heavens beyond the planets, the terrestrial axes and poles, the Arctic poles, the cardinal points, and calculations of the planets' motions and periods of revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis chart is therefore a compendium of religious, medical, astrological and astronomical knowledge\u003c\/strong\u003e. It is the IMAGE of natural philosophy, showing us that for a Renaissance scholar all these disciplines were interconnected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis \u003cem\u003eCompendium Phi naturalis\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that synthesises a certain vision of the world, well ordered, structured, fixed and centred on man, which had prevailed for 2,000 years and now stood on the eve of a historic change\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eThe author writes at the dawn of a religious and astronomical revolution whose scale he could not possibly suspect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo grasp the erudition of this text and its roots in the Renaissance, one need only consider the references and names we have been able to find in it, of which the following list is by no means exhaustive: Luther, François Villon, Josse Bade, Filippo Beroaldo, Aristotle, Plato, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Democritus, Anaximander, Zeno, Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Hippocrates, Galen, Pliny the Elder, Seneca, Ovid, Virgil, Aesop, Saint Augustine, Boethius, Isidore of Seville, Albertus Magnus, Haly, Pietro d'Abano, Averroes, Zoroaster, Hermes Trismegistus…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBut this book is also a fine testament to the Parisian printing world of the early 16th century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDamien Higman (Hichman, Ichmann, Hicqueman) lived at the heart of the great printing dynasties. Son of the printer Jean Higman (active 1484–1500) and of Guyonne Viart, he became the stepson of Henri Estienne and then of Simon de Colines when his mother remarried (she was widowed three times).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe beauty of the book, its beautifully balanced layout, the magnificent printer's device and the exquisitely fine initials all bear witness to great skill and a labour of love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last leaf is a fine example: in it Higman praises the invention of printing by the Germans, as well as the celebrated printer Jodocus Badius (Josse Bade).\u003cbr\u003e(machine translation)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHave not these Germans recently brought to light, with skill and circumspect moderation, a certain new method of printing? Indeed, what benefit does not everyone derive from these types of Beroaldo and Badius?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/frenchpostincunables.bibsoc.org.uk\/\/index.php?title=P%C3%A9ronne,_Claude,_Compendium_philosophiae_naturalis._1520._4%C2%B0._Paris:_successors_of_Jean_Marchant,_for_Damien_Higman.\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/frenchpostincunables.bibsoc.org.uk\/\/index.php?title=P%C3%A9ronne,_Claude,_Compendium_philosophiae_naturalis._1520._4%C2%B0._Paris:_successors_of_Jean_Marchant,_for_Damien_Higman.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[1] Philippe Renouard. Répertoire des imprimeurs parisiens : libraires, fondeurs de caractères et correcteurs d'imprimerie (via Cambridge University Press \/ Internet Archive).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReader, here are the chapters you will find in this book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the three principles of all things.\u003cbr\u003eOn the world.\u003cbr\u003eOn the eternity of the world.\u003cbr\u003eOn the prime matter of all things.\u003cbr\u003eOn the nature of things.\u003cbr\u003eOn the form of the world.\u003cbr\u003eOn the 11 heavens.\u003cbr\u003eOn the quintessence.\u003cbr\u003eOn the intelligences.\u003cbr\u003eOn the elements.\u003cbr\u003eOn the four primary qualities.\u003cbr\u003eOn the secondary qualities.\u003cbr\u003eOn the symbols of the elements.\u003cbr\u003eOn the earth.\u003cbr\u003eOn the natural place of the earth.\u003cbr\u003eOn the shape of the earth.\u003cbr\u003eOn the motion of the earth.\u003cbr\u003eOn the nature of the earth.\u003cbr\u003eOn water.\u003cbr\u003eOn the uses of water.\u003cbr\u003eOn the dwelling places and nature of water.\u003cbr\u003eOn air.\u003cbr\u003eOn the natural place of air.\u003cbr\u003eOn the uses of air.\u003cbr\u003eOn the nature of air.\u003cbr\u003eOn fire.\u003cbr\u003eOn the properties of fire.\u003cbr\u003eOn the natural place and nature of fire.\u003cbr\u003eOn perfect and imperfect mixtures.\u003cbr\u003eOn the generation of man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Modern binding, worn but sturdy. Small loss at the edge of the map, slightly affecting the image. Map remargined. Quire [d] bound between quires [a] and [b]. Very faint old water stain in the lower margin; some foxing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casaubon Livre Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57122811478356,"sku":null,"price":2350.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/01_Compendium_Naturalis_Claude_Peronne_Casaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1789235372"},{"product_id":"geiler-de-kaysersberg-jean-das-buch-d-sunden-des-munds","title":"GEILER de Kaysersberg Jean. Das buch d’sünden des munds","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeiler von Kaisersberg, Johann\u003cbr\u003eDas buch der sünden des munds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolio, 350 x 220 mm. 90 ff. 18 woodcuts in the text, two of them full-page.\u003cbr\u003eModern vellum Bradel binding, probably early 20th century, covered with a leaf from an old gradual bearing two large decorated initials in red and blue. Smooth spine with manuscript title and date. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBookplate of Gilbert R. Redgrave dated 1894 on the front pastedown and bookplate of Karl and Thilde Wagner on the free endpaper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe author, Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg, was one of the most celebrated preachers of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.\u003c\/strong\u003e Born on 16 March 1445, he was the first holder of the preachership of Strasbourg Cathedral, from 1478 until his death in 1510. Ordained a priest in 1470, he received his doctorate in theology in 1475. In 1476 he became professor of theology at Freiburg im Breisgau and was elected rector of the university that same year. He gave up his academic career in 1477 and preached in Strasbourg from 1478 to 1510. (1)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Francis Rapp emphasises in \"\u003cem\u003eL'art oratoire de Geiler de Kaysersberg\u003c\/em\u003e\", \u003cem\u003eGeiler was a passionate and deeply pious man whose sacred mission as a preacher was to save his fellow men from evil and help them to do good\u003c\/em\u003e. (2)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany of his sermons were published during his lifetime or preserved in manuscript by himself or his followers. \u003cem\u003eDas buch der sünden des munds\u003c\/em\u003e, however, was published eight years after his death by Johannes Grüninger in the Imperial City of Strasbourg, on the feast of St John Chrysostom, in the year 1518.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur copy is enriched with an autograph letter by Gilbert R. Redgrave, the celebrated 19th-century English bibliographer, President of the Bibliographical Society in 1908 and co-author of the STC, a major reference for the identification and study of early English-language editions. His study of Das buch der sünden des munds in the letter is all the more interesting for it: his rigorous methodology makes it a valuable source of information. He offers an analysis of the woodcuts:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eThe woodcut on page 2\u003c\/strong\u003e showing Geiler in the pulpit first appeared in 1513.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eCounting from there, nos. \u003cstrong\u003e2 to 5, 8 to 11 and 14 to 16\u003c\/strong\u003e are the work of the artist H. F.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- No. 6,\u003c\/strong\u003e was first used on the title page of the 1498 Horace.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- No. 7,\u003c\/strong\u003e depicting the \"blaspheming soldier\", is the work of Hans Baldung Grien.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- No. 17,\u003c\/strong\u003e comes from Brunschwig's \"Chirurgia\" (1497).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- No. 18,\u003c\/strong\u003e \"The Ascension\", is taken from the \"Brösamlein\" of 1517, and\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- No. 12,\u003c\/strong\u003e \"The Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem\", comes from Geiler's \"Passion\". \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- No. 13\u003c\/strong\u003e bears the monogram of the artist H. The title border has been attributed to D. Hopfer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt would appear from the title page that this book, entitled The Sins of the Mouth, was published together with the Alphabet sermons, which are generally regarded as an entirely separate publication.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur volume therefore comprises the shared title page and the first book on the sins of the mouth, without the sermons from the Alphabet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording to the digitised copy in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the colophon of the \"Alphabet\" sermons gives 6 March 1518 as the date of printing, whereas Das buch der sünden des munds was completed by Johannes Grüninger on 27 January 1518. This offers valuable information on the time needed to print the book, and shows that the two works do belong to the same \"collection\", printed over the same period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur copy of the Sins of the Mouth has the common title page. This title page bears the stamp of the prestigious library of the Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen. The following title page (that of the Sins of the Mouth) also bears a pasted-on stamp of the abbey library. The book was probably bound for Redgrave: his autograph letter is inserted in the volume, and the binding in reused vellum appears contemporary with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of the dispersal of the library of the Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen is a fascinating one for the world of bibliophily. Upon secularisation in 1803, the abbey was dissolved and the estate passed to the princely family of Metternich. In 1825 the famous Austrian chancellor Klemens Wenzel von Metternich sold the lands and buildings to the Kingdom of Württemberg, but took great care to keep the prestigious monastic library for himself.\u003cbr\u003eHe had part of the library moved to his summer residence, Kynžvart Castle in Bohemia (in the present-day Czech Republic); the rest was sold. To this day, the castle library holds hundreds of manuscripts and some 360 incunabula coming directly from this collection. (3)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA magnificent book in very fine condition. The paper is admirably preserved and the woodcuts, depicting scenes of contemporary life, are fascinating, revealing a wealth of detail, everyday objects and clothing. The full-page woodcuts are striking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVD 16, G 718 and G 719. - Adams G 308. - Oldenbourg L 120. - Ritter 979. - Schmidt I, 157.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e A few light signs of handling; 1 to 3 small wormholes along the leaves, in the white margin; occasional early annotations; small losses restored in the blank margins of the last three leaves. Two creases on the parchment cover. Leaf 61 is numbered 64. Leaf 87 is numbered 89. Leaf 88 is numbered 89.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVie de l’auteur : \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hls-dhs-dss.ch\/de\/articles\/028631\/2005-08-18\/\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttps:\/\/hls-dhs-dss.ch\/de\/articles\/028631\/2005-08-18\/\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eL’art oratoire de Geiler de Kaysersberg : Rapp Francis. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eL’art oratoire de Geiler de Kaysersberg : passion et savoirfaire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Janvier-Mars 2016.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kloster-ochsenhausen.de\/erlebnis-kloster\/kloster\/gebaeude\/bibliothekssaal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDer Bibliothekssaal - Kloster Ochsenhause\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Casaubon Livre Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57123124543828,"sku":null,"price":3850.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/00_Das_buch_sunden_munds_Geiler_Kaysersberg_Casaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1789235969"},{"product_id":"anonyme-enchiridion-leonis-papae","title":"LÉON III. Enchiridion Leonis Papae","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnchiridion Leonis Papae\u003cbr\u003eSerenissimo Imperatori Carolo Magno. Enchiridion du Pape LÉON, envoyé comme un rare présent à l'Empereur Charlemagne. Édition corrigée.\u003cbr\u003eA Rome (1740).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColophon: Imprimerie de Blocquel à Lille (1813).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12mo, 141 x 93 mm. [8] ff. (hand-coloured vignette on the title page, 7 engraved and hand-coloured plates), 160 pp. (numbered 3 to 162). Complete. Brown half morocco, spine with four raised bands. Gilt-tooled compartments and red morocco title label. Marbled paper covers, pastedowns and endpapers. Marbled edges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Enchiridion attributed to Leo III (Pope from 795 to 816, who crowned Charlemagne and who, according to legend, presented him with this little book) is a legendary grimoire: its attribution to this pope belongs to occult tradition rather than historical fact. A Roman edition of 1523 is alleged, but the earliest surviving text dates from 1633; the work was then reprinted many times between the 17th and 19th centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording to \"\u003cem\u003eLe catalogue des Grimoires et des livres de Magie\u003c\/em\u003e\" by Frederick Cox: the word enchiridion (the \"ch\" is pronounced \"k\") comes from Late Latin, borrowed from the Greek enkheiridion, from kheir, \"hand\", with the prefix en, \"in\". It could be translated literally as \"hand-book\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur 1813 edition bears, like all editions of this family, the false imprint \"A Rome, 1740\", and presents itself as a \"corrected\" version. This is one of the finest 19th-century editions of the Enchiridion, with superb hand-coloured illustrations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Enchiridion contains recipes and rituals for everyday use. It includes prayers reputed to be mysterious, meant to guard against illness, evil spells, bewitchment, possession and the perils of travel, as well as healing charms and instructions for making talismans and pentacles, which are depicted here in the coloured plates. These elements belong to a Christian folk magic, in which the power of words and objects is harnessed to act upon the real world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the Dragon Rouge, but on a Christian theme, the Enchiridion of Pope Leo speaks to an unconscious that thirsts to penetrate the mysteries of the soul and ends up finding what it seeks in the folklore of incantations and old wives' remedies. Whether we believe in it or laugh at it, it is essential to return to it, for these little grimoires tell us better than many learned treatises what the fears, hopes and everyday faith of people in former times once were.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA similar copy of this singular grimoire can be viewed on the Chouette Noire website.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.chouette-noire.com\/grimoires\/Enchiridion%20leonis%20papae%201740\/Enchiridion1740nouv.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Enchiridion Leonis Papae\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.chouette-noire.com\/grimoires\/Enchiridion%20leonis%20papae%201740\/Enchiridion1740nouv.htm\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaillet II, 3619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rubbing to covers and corners. Browning to the text leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casaubon Livre Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57123441049940,"sku":null,"price":1600.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/00_Enchiridion_Leonis_Papae_Casaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1789236614"},{"product_id":"schott-casparis-physica-curiosa","title":"SCHOTT Casparis. Physica curiosa","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhysica Curiosa, sive Mirabilia Naturæ et Artis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLIBRIS XII. COMPREHENSA,\u003cbr\u003eQuibus pleraq;, quæ de Angelis, Dæmonibus, Hominibus,\u003cbr\u003eSpectris, Energumenis, Monstris, Portentis, Animalibus, Meteoris, \u0026amp;c.\u003cbr\u003erara, arcana, curiosaq; circumferuntur, ad Veritatis trutinam expenduntur, Variis ex Historia ac Philosophia petitis disquisitionibus excutiuntur, \u0026amp; innumeris exemplis illustrantur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHERBIPOLI, Sumptibus JOHANNIS ANDREÆ ENDTERI \u0026amp; WOLFF-GANGI Jun. Hæredum.\u003cbr\u003eExcudebat JOBUS HERTZ Typographus Herbipol. Anno M. DC. LXII.\u003cbr\u003eProstant Norimbergæ apud dictos Endteros.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe wonders of nature and art, comprised in 12 books, in which most of the rare, secret and curious things reported of Angels, Demons, Men, Spectres, the Possessed, Monsters, Portents, Animals, Meteors, etc., are weighed on the scales of Truth.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNuremberg. 1662\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4to, 220 x 175 mm (2 volumes in 1). [4] ff., 28 ff. (a4–g4), 770 pp., [1] f., 814 pp., [12] ff., 57 plates, 3 of them folding. Complete. Blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards. Spine with four raised bands, title and date in manuscript. Blind-tooled floral borders on both covers. Clasps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGaspar Schott (Gasparis Schotti) was a German Jesuit (1608–1666), a learned mathematician, physicist and theologian, first assistant to and then successor of Athanasius Kircher at the University of Würzburg in Franconia\u003c\/strong\u003e (present-day Bavaria) (1).\u003cbr\u003eIn 1631, in the wake of the Thirty Years' War, he fled Germany, settling first in Tournai in Belgium and then in Palermo, Sicily, where he completed his studies in philosophy, theology and mathematics. In 1652 he joined his mentor Athanasius Kircher in Rome, with whom he had remained in contact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1657 he published his first work, the Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica, which met with great success. During the final years of his life he devoted himself chiefly to publishing the immense body of material accumulated over his years of research. Between 1658 and 1666 he wrote eleven works, among them the Physica Curiosa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted by the master printer Johann Hertz, and produced and distributed by Johann Andreas Endter and Wolfgang the Younger, of the powerful Nuremberg dynasty of printer-publishers, the Physica Curiosa takes the form of an encyclopaedia of curiosities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArranged in 12 books, it is a curious blend of theological and scientific learning and the marvellous. The 57 plates depict imaginary animals, chimeras, monsters and exotic beasts:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI. The Wonders of Angels and Demons.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA study of angelic and demonic manifestations, combining theology, accounts of possession and critical analysis of testimony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII. The Wonders of Spectres.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHauntings and apparitions, approached through folk tales and judicial records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII. The Wonders of Men.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA catalogue of human singularities: giants, dwarfs, hermaphrodites, and individuals with exceptional physical abilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV. The Wonders of Energumens (the Possessed).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn analysis of cases of demonic possession, with particular attention to physical symptoms (convulsions, glossolalia) and methods of exorcism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eV. The Wonders of Monsters.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescriptions of hybrid or deformed creatures (two-headed animals, malformed children), illustrated with copper engravings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVI. The Wonders of Prodigies (or Portents).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnexplained celestial and terrestrial phenomena: rains of blood, comets, monstrous births.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVII. The Wonders of Animals in General.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn introduction to rare or exotic species, often accompanied by plates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVIII. The Wonders of Land Animals.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA subdivision of Book VII, devoted to quadrupeds and reptiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIX. The Wonders of Flying Animals (Birds).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA study of birds, including mythical species (the phoenix) and exotic ones (parrots, ostriches).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eX. The Wonders of Aquatic Animals.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescriptions of fish, cetaceans and sea creatures, with particular attention to the monsters of the medieval bestiaries (sirens, sea dragons).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eXI. The Wonders of Meteors.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAtmospheric phenomena: auroras, lightning, rainbows, and rains of stones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eXII. Miscellaneous Wonders (or Miscellanea).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA synthesis of the preceding themes, with new observations and borderline cases. This book also includes mirabilia artis: mechanical inventions, automata and optical illusions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance on the title page\u003c\/strong\u003e: \"Bibliothecæ Ducumburgensis\", denoting the library of Herzogenburg Abbey (Stift Herzogenburg), a distinguished monastery of Augustinian Canons Regular in Lower Austria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaillet III, 10004: Nissen ZBI 3746, Brunet V, col. 219-220.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e The book opens beautifully. Original clasps are intact but no longer close. The ink has oxidized on the pages, creating a distinctive background beneath the text (this oxidation is also visible in digitized copies online and is certainly due to the ink used by Hertz). Traces of dampness and oxidation, rubbing on the binding (see photos).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(1) The eminent academics appointed as professors at the University of Würzburg \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210608090436\/https:\/\/www.uni-wuerzburg.de\/en\/uniarchiv\/personalities\/eminent-scholars\/\" title=\"Les éminents universitaires nommés professeurs à l'Université de Wurtzbourg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210608090436\/https:\/\/www.uni-wuerzburg.de\/en\/uniarchiv\/personalities\/eminent-scholars\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(2) Dietrich Unverzagt Philosophia, Historia, Technica- Caspar Schotts Magia universalis. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kalteis.de\/Digitaltechnik\/Geschichte_der_Rechenmaschinen\/Caspar_Schott.pdf\" title=\"Dietrich Unverzagt Philosophia, Historia, Technica- Caspar Schotts Magia universalis.\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.kalteis.de\/Digitaltechnik\/Geschichte_der_Rechenmaschinen\/Caspar_Schott.pdf\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(3) La fiche wikipedia de Schott : \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaspar_Schott\" title=\"Gaspar Schott\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaspar_Schott\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casaubon Livre Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57124222075220,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0895\/6670\/8052\/files\/00_Physica_Curiosa_Gaspar_Schott_Casaubon-livre-rare.jpg?v=1789237591"},{"product_id":"hillessemio-ludovico-sacrarum-antiquitatum-monumenta","title":"HILLESSEMIO Ludovico. Sacrarum Antiquitatum Monumenta","description":"\u003cp\u003eSacrarum Antiquitatum Monumenta\u003cbr\u003ePatriarchs, Kings, Prophets, and truly illustrious men of the Old Testament, presented and inscribed with images and encomiums.\u003cbr\u003eBy Ludovicus Hillessemius of Andernach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntwerp, from the workshop of Christophe Plantin, Royal Printer; 1577.\u003cbr\u003e(Antwerp, Christophe Plantin. 1577.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHILLESSEMIO, Ludovicus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo (175 x 113 mm). [8] leaves, 96 pages. Contemporary temporary binding in limp vellum. Ink title on the spine; raised bands visible on the spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued from the prestigious presses of \u003cstrong\u003eChristophe Plantin\u003c\/strong\u003e in Antwerp, then at the height of his activity, this work is a collection of sacred emblems \u003cstrong\u003efeaturing great figures of the Old Testament\u003c\/strong\u003e (patriarchs, kings, prophets).\u003cbr\u003eEach figure is accompanied by a copper engraving, either a portrait or a small scene, followed by an \u003cem\u003eelogium\u003c\/em\u003e and a motto or biblical verse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe format follows the tradition of humanist Icones, where image and text complement each other to illustrate a virtue or a significant episode. 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Jean Rouher wielded a pen with a regularity and elegance rare in a student: chapter titles in large, calligraphic \"bâtarde\" script; a main text in a compact yet perfectly legible cursive hand; planetary symbols and zodiac signs drawn within the body of the text; and diagrams inserted in the margins (such as the logical square of oppositions and cosmological systems). \u003cstrong\u003eThe twenty-four pen-and-ink plates illustrating\u003c\/strong\u003e the second volume—numbered and cross-referenced to the course text—are veritable miniature hand-drawn engravings: suns with human faces, lunar phases, planetary orbits, thermometers and barometers in their vessels, pendulums held by hands, levers, and a fine ballistics plate showing a cannonball tracing a parabolic arc between two galleons. A large engraving of a galleon concludes the volume. 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